Thursday, December 09, 2004 - Posts

Pass-Phrasing

Great post on using pass-phrases rather than pass-words to log in to your PCs. I used to use lines of songs as my passwords a long time ago, mostly because I remembered them better than anything else. I think I'll go back Read More

PDC 2005

This is probably a little bit "old" by now but the date of the Professional Developer's Conference for 2005 has been posted and you can find the details here http://msdn.microsoft.com/events/pdc It's very early days Read More

SQL Server Integration Servies

I was lucky today to get to sit through an introduction to SQL Server Integration Services by Donald Farmer which was a really good session. You might have heard that Integration Services is the new name for what used to be Read More

Oracle and CLR?

Interesting article here - Oracle is putting .NET CLR support into its database in a future version. Not quite clear to me whether that's just for stored procedures or whether it's more extensive than that like SQL Server 2005 Read More